How do golgi bodies work?

1 Answer
Jun 27, 2017

Golgi bodies serve to package and secrete proteins meant for intracellular or extracellular destinations.

Explanation:

Golgi bodies are rather like post offices that pack and label items to be transported away from their sites of synthesis.

Golgi bodies are part of the endomembrane system of a cell.
Proteins are packed into membrane bound vesicles.

Golgi bodies contain a set of glycosylation enzymes that attach various sugar monomers to proteins as the proteins move through the apparatus.

Golgi bodies differ in complexity across life forms.

Antibody plasma B cells,involved in immunity systems, have large Golgi bodies as these cells have prominent secretory activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_apparatus